I liked vrypan’s idea about keeping control of your tweets.
But I wanted to do it “the other way around”.
Keep using the twitter interface, but archive a copy of my tweets in a dedicated wordpress blog.
So I found a wordpress plugin that does that:
Twitter Tools
I also wanted to populate my blog with my older tweets.
So a bit of Net::Twitter::Lite and WordPress::API thrown in a few lines of perl code, did the trick!
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Net::Twitter::Lite;
use WordPress::API;
use Unicode::String;
use utf8;
my $nt = Net::Twitter::Lite->new(
username => "twitter-username", password => "twitter-password");
my $w = WordPress::API->new({ proxy => 'http://stsimb-tweets.irc.gr/xmlrpc.php',
username => 'blog-username', password => 'blog-password', });
eval {
my $statuses = $nt->user_timeline({ count => 100, page => '1' });
for my $status ( @$statuses ) {
print "$status->{id} $status->{created_at} $status->{text}\n";
my $tweet = Unicode::String::utf8($status->{text});
my $post = $w->post;
$post->description("$tweet");
$post->dateCreated("$status->{created_at}");
$post->save;
}
};
warn "$@\n" if $@;
So now I have most of my tweets at http://stsimb-tweets.irc.gr/.
It’s my own tweetbackup service :-)
